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My first employer out of college told me explicitly they hired me because I was willing to stick with a 4 year program, and though I didn’t have experience they were confident I’d stick around enough to be trained. I got an art degree and it was a computer science job 🤔
You can be trained to code and probably came cheap. Companies willing to invest in people are very rare in this day and age.
This is a weirdly reductionist take. Implying that anyone can be "trained to code" seems to imply that coding is a rote skill that can be easily trained into anyone, completely dismissing the fact that some brains will just inherently do better at it than others. Also the generalization you make about companies that are willing to to train their potential hires is not true everywhere.
As someone who isn't a coder, I was able to pick up enough Visual Basic back in the day to figure out how to make some basic apps for myself. It only involved learning a few concepts and commands. That should be enough for anyone with a college degree to do. Simple coding at a low level, learning enough to maintain a website that's already been designed for example, as long as nothing catastrophic happens, can definitely be done by anyone.
The problem now is that it can also be done by AI.
AIs are worse at coding than they are at art, and that's saying something
Congrats, I spent a stupid amount of effort trying to do just that, ended up breaking into other industries.